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Dugdale’s vision is aimed at resettling the UK after two bruising campaigns on independence and leaving the EU.

Speaking in London yesterday, she said: “After more than 300 years, it is time for a new Act of Union to safeguard our family of nations for generations to come.

“This would mean a radical reshaping of our country along federal lines where Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions take more responsibility for their own communities – but where we still have the protection of being part of the UK as a whole.”

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The first Act of Union brought Scotland and England together in 1707. But the SNP’s Linda Fabiani, who sat on the Smith Commission on further devolution after the 2014 referendum, attacked Dugdale’s proposal.

She said: “Labour have been promising a supercharged, power- house, federalism-max for years and consistently failing to deliver it.

Kezia Dugdale, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party (Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)

“Kezia Dugdale is always quick to accuse others of obsessing over the constitution but Labour’s default answer to bad polling numbers is to promise powers that they don’t deliver.”

And Dugdale’s fellow Unionist, Tory MSP John Lamony, also blasted the move, claiming it would stoke even more constitutional uncertainty.